Rock Island daily Argus., 1887-06-21
NO PLACE LIKE HOME.

There is NO Need Of Going West t.
sueceed---Progperity Is Here and
Here 1t Will Kemain---Stand by
Yeur Town.
The fact cannot be discounted that
Rock Island today stands head and
shoulders above any of the western
towns with so-called booms. If YOU
would appreciate Rock Island. 60 on
a trip west, Or even visit the surrounding
towns, and when you return you will be
donbly impressed with the beauty, thrift,
industry and general push of this town
60 into the livest town in all Kansas and
you will find that nine-tenths of the
farms surrounding 1T are for sale. In
Rock Island county the farmers are sat-
ished. and many of them are rich, and
fmost of them becoming SO. Few farms
are really in the market, because the soil
is the most productive of any on the face
of the broad earth. There is no other
country under the shining sun. of equal
area, that will surpass the state of Illi-
nois; and it is wealth that makes towns.
and all wealth must of necessity at some
period come out of the ground. There
is reason for the push, the snap. the Wig.
or, that characterizes the business men
and citizens of Rock Island. The town
is constantly growing in population, in
manufacturing interests, in wealth, in
Importance every way. An hours drive
about the city will convince the most
skepticsl Of this fact.
Let no home croaker play the traitor in
his own camp, but let every individual
citizen have good word for his home
town and soon our city can lay aside its
swaddling clothes and step to the front
in full city attire. and with an energy and
confidence that will command the admi>
ration OF all visitors and new corners. as
well as the pride of every inhabitant.
Speak a good word for your own town
and in doing so you need but tell the
truth. The man who does the most for
his town is usually the man who does
most for himself; and he who does well
for himself is usually in position to lend
ahelping hand to others, not always un-
selfshly, but helping hand nevertheless.
Where each individual is enterprising, the
community as natural consequence
must also be enterprising. This being the
case, there is no room for GROWERS and
croakers. Let every man put his shoul
der to the wheel and do what he can. not
so much for the public, but for himself.
The man who helps himself will fiud
help, while he who expects somebody to
assist him is usually disappointed, and as |
a rule deserves disappointment. Those
who would see Rock Island continue to
we all would-should lend
the city their assistance by bending their
best energies in bettering their own con-
dition, for each individual is part and
parcel of the city. and what is good for the
citizen is good for the city. Every manu>
featuring interest in the city has been Inv
angurated for personal benefit to the pro-
prletors, and yet untold benefit hes
accrued to the whole town, if not direct.
y, then indirectly. Every house erected
las been for the comfort or profit of its
owner, vet the building of the same has
put money into somebody's pocket. Every
aborer who earns dollar divides it with
lis groceryman or someone else; and thus
zach working for himself puts money in
o the pocket of his neighbor, whether he
will so or not. Industry, energy and per-
everance are wealth makers; and wealth.
makers are constantly distributors. Thus
he cycle continues, widening each year.
let no driftwood impede the current of {
Improvement, but let each private enter,
rise amount to public spirit. |,